Nominate your favorite teacher
Paige L. Jinbo
Issue date: 10/26/09 Section: News
The call for nominations is underway. Students, now is your chance to recognize the most outstanding teacher of 2010 on campus.
Since 1976, the Board of Regents established the Excellence Teaching Award for full-time faculty, including counselors, librarians and instructional media specialists.
The BOR formulates policies and exercises control over the university through its executive office, the university president. The board is composed of 15 regents, who have exclusive jurisdiction over the internal structure, management and operation of the university.
Once a year each campus within the University of Hawai'i system recognizes one full-time faculty member for being an excellent teacher.
While faculty members can nominate their colleagues, Shawn Ford, chairperson for KCC's Faculty-Student Relations Committee, wants the ETA to be more student-driven.
"It seems that students haven't really gotten into it - students think that this award is something cheesy and think that only the teacher's pet would nominate their teacher," Ford said. "But, there are such great teachers out there and I just want to get students excited to talk about their teachers."
Students who would like to nominate a teacher must fill out the nomination form (on the bottom half of this page). In the designated space students must briefly explain why they're nominating this person. Also, three students or faculty members are required for the nomination to be valid.
"Sometimes it's difficult to get students to nominate their faculty members," said Keith Kashiwada, student engagement coordinator. Kashiwada, who also won the ETA in 2006, said that it's always been a challenge to get students to participate.
"Hopefully with my new position as student engagement coordinator I can help with getting more students to nominate their teachers," Kashiwada said.
After the deadline - Dec. 4 - all nomination forms are reviewed by the FSRC. E-mails are then sent out to the nominees informing them that they are in the running for the ETA.
Nominees who accepted their nomination were required to submit an essay and student evaluations. The essay must have included teaching and grading philosophies, tools and techniques used to assess student learning, types of professional development and community service students engage in and special lessons that the faculty member has learned from their students. Nominees must also open their classrooms up to observation to members of the FSRC.
The faculty members who followed these procedures are usually declared the finalists. The FSRC will then discuss who is best fit to win the award.
The ETA recipient is then announced at KCC's spring commencement.
Up until now, the recipient was required to serve as the chairperson of the FSRC for two years. The chairperson essentially coordi
Since 1976, the Board of Regents established the Excellence Teaching Award for full-time faculty, including counselors, librarians and instructional media specialists.
The BOR formulates policies and exercises control over the university through its executive office, the university president. The board is composed of 15 regents, who have exclusive jurisdiction over the internal structure, management and operation of the university.
Once a year each campus within the University of Hawai'i system recognizes one full-time faculty member for being an excellent teacher.
While faculty members can nominate their colleagues, Shawn Ford, chairperson for KCC's Faculty-Student Relations Committee, wants the ETA to be more student-driven.
"It seems that students haven't really gotten into it - students think that this award is something cheesy and think that only the teacher's pet would nominate their teacher," Ford said. "But, there are such great teachers out there and I just want to get students excited to talk about their teachers."
Students who would like to nominate a teacher must fill out the nomination form (on the bottom half of this page). In the designated space students must briefly explain why they're nominating this person. Also, three students or faculty members are required for the nomination to be valid.
"Sometimes it's difficult to get students to nominate their faculty members," said Keith Kashiwada, student engagement coordinator. Kashiwada, who also won the ETA in 2006, said that it's always been a challenge to get students to participate.
"Hopefully with my new position as student engagement coordinator I can help with getting more students to nominate their teachers," Kashiwada said.
After the deadline - Dec. 4 - all nomination forms are reviewed by the FSRC. E-mails are then sent out to the nominees informing them that they are in the running for the ETA.
Nominees who accepted their nomination were required to submit an essay and student evaluations. The essay must have included teaching and grading philosophies, tools and techniques used to assess student learning, types of professional development and community service students engage in and special lessons that the faculty member has learned from their students. Nominees must also open their classrooms up to observation to members of the FSRC.
The faculty members who followed these procedures are usually declared the finalists. The FSRC will then discuss who is best fit to win the award.
The ETA recipient is then announced at KCC's spring commencement.
Up until now, the recipient was required to serve as the chairperson of the FSRC for two years. The chairperson essentially coordi
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